Interior Chase house upstairs. Angela walks from her room to Danielle's, we
hear some moaning. Text appears: Three Rivers, Pennsylvania. June 13, 4.15
a.m. Angela enters Danielle's room quietly and closes the door again. She
sits on the bed and wakes Danielle.

ANGELA:[softly] Danielle, wake up. You're having a nightmare.

Danielle opens her eyes, but doesn't seem to see Angela. Angela picks up
the wet towel from the floor and holds it to Danielle's head. Danielle is
mumbling.

PATTY: Hello. -- Oh hi Rayanne, Angela left already. -- Yes, that's
true. But Danielle's sick and if she doesn't get better, we
might cancel it. -- Hold on a sec., Rayanne. [puts hand over
phone, to Graham] It's Rayanne. She asks if they could all come
over saturday, for the barbecue.

GRAHAM: Why didn't Angela ask?

PATTY: Rayanne said that Angela thought it would be too much trouble.
What do you think? She says that they will all bring food and
drinks along.

Patty blushes. She looks around for something. Then she gets her keys and
her bag. She kisses Graham.

PATTY:[fast] I got to go.

Patty leaves the kitchen. Graham gets up, humming and poors himself another
cup of coffee.

SCENE 4

Interior Liberty High hallway. Angela and Rickie are standing at Angela's
locker. Rayanne comes running in. Angela and Rickie point their guns, but
Rayanne doesn't shoot. She looking extremely happy.

RAYANNE:[to Angela] You are *so* going to thank me.

ANGELA:[surprised] Why?

RAYANNE: You're not going to be alone with Jordan and your parents at
the barbecue.

ANGELA:[sighs] Come on, Rayanne. I'm positive my parents don't like to
have the winner of the shooting over for the barbecue.

RAYANNE:[smiling] Did you ask?

ANGELA:[excusing voice] No.

RAYANNE: Well, *I* did.

ANGELA:[mouth open wide] You *what*?

RAYANNE: I thought it would be nice for you to have some friends over at
the barbecue. [pauses] But since you are like incapable of
asking these things, I thought I wouldd. [to Rickie] I had such
a nice telephone conversation with Patty, you wouldn't believe
it.

ANGELA:[still can't believe it] What did she say?

RAYANNE: I said we all would bring some food or drinks along. Then she
said it was o.k.

Exterior elementary school. Mulder and Scully get out of a blue car. Text
appears: St. Mary school, Three Rivers, Pennsylvania. 9.15 a.m. They walk
to the entrance and enter the school. CUT to interior school. They walk
through the small school, looking into classrooms. Then a fifty year old
concierge walks up from behind. Scully and Mulder turn around.

The concierge walks through the hallway, Mulder and Scully follow him. At
the third door he stops, knocks and signals the teacher. The same woman as
we saw in the very beginning steps out of the classroom. She doesn't seem
to like being called out of her class.

MULDER: Miss Mitry?

MITRY:[a little irritated] Yes.

MULDER: We're federal agents Mulder and Scully. We're here to ask you
some questions about last monday, when you went to the zoo.

MITRY:[indifferent] O.K.

Scully gets out a print of the videotape picture showing Danielle walking
to the toilets. It's almost impossible to recognize her, it's a bad print
from a bad tape. And you can't see her face.

SCULLY: Excuse for the quality, but do you recognize this girl?

Mitry takes a careful look.

MITRY: Sure, it's Danielle.

SCULLY: She's in your class.

MITRY: Yes.

SCULLY: Can we see her?

MITRY: No. [pauses] She's at home. She's been sick for three days now.
Since the trip to the zoo.

SCULLY: She's sick?

MITRY:[offended] Yes. What has she done?

MULDER:[impatient] She has stolen lipstick at the mall, that's why the
F.B.I. is at your school.

Scully takes the thermometer out of Danielle's mouth. It's on 103.4. Graham
gets back in. He gives a small bottle of pills to Scully. She looks at the
label.

GRAHAM: This is all I've got. It's for adults.

SCULLY: That's not the point now. Could you get her up?

Graham lifts Danielle, so that she sits up. Scully takes out two pills and
gives them to Graham. He takes them and puts one in Danielle's mouth and he
poors a little water in her mouth.

GRAHAM: Swallow it, honey.

Danielle does as she's told and Graham gives her the other pill. Then
Mulder comes in.

MULDER: I called an ambulance and told them in the hospital what to
expect.

GRAHAM:[real concerned] What is going on?

MULDER: You heard about the polar bear that died, here in the zoo?

Graham nods.

MULDER: Danielle touched something at the zoo that caused the bear's
death and her fever.

SCULLY: The only problem is that what she touched is unknown material
and we have no idea how to stop it.

GRAHAM: But she's going to be allright?

SCULLY: I don't know, mr. Chase.

SCENE 7

Exterior Chase house. An ambulance is on the driveway, two paramedics are
carrying a brancard with Danielle on it out of the house. Scully walks
along with them. Mulder and Graham follow. The paramedics enter the
ambulance with the brancard. Graham gets in and looks back at Scully and
Mulder. Graham's POV.

SCULLY: We'll meet you at the hospital, mr. Chase.

Mulder and Scully's POV. The ambulance doors close and the ambulance speeds
away. At the end of the street the sirens go on. Then Mulder's phone rings.
He gets in out of his pocket.

MULDER: Hello.

It's the Cigarette Smoking Man. As they talk the shots go from Mulder (in
front of the Chase house) to the CSM (interior office, holding a cigarette).

CSM: Hello, agent Mulder.

MULDER:[recognizes the voice, angry] What do you want?

CSM:[calm] No, what do *you* want, agent Mulder. [pauses] The girl
is going to die, unless you find a cure pretty soon, right?

MULDER:[real pissed] What did you do to her?

CSM: What I did doesn't matter, but I guess she's going to reach
104.1 rather fast. [pauses] The cure is nearer than you think,
agent Mulder.

Then a black van suddenly pulls up. Mulder sees it and runs to the car. He
puts the phone in his pocket.

MULDER:[to Scully] Come on!

They get in the car and drive away, following the black van. Mulder's
driving. He gets out his phone.

MULDER:[in phone] What's the cure?

CSM: I think you're near.

MULDER: How can I trust you?

CSM: Why would I have called you? The *girl* doesn't need to die.

CSM puts the phone down. So does Mulder, but he's angry.

MULDER: [to Scully] It was him. The cure is in the van. I hope.

The black van races through the streets of Three Rivers. Mulder and Scully
are right behind it, but due to the other cars, they can't pass the van.
After a minute of high speed car chase, Mulder gets beside the van. Scully
pulls down her window and points her gun. The van driver sees it, but he's
not going to stop. The driver is the same guy as the guy who met the CSM in
the parking garage. Mulder tries to drive the van off the street. They're
in a street with shops. He succeeds. The van get to the side of the road.
But the man who drove it gets out immediately and runs away, before Mulder
and Scully even get out of the car. Mulder runs after him and catches up on
him. He jumps on him from the back and they both fall to the ground.

MULDER: F.B.I. You're under arrest.

Mulder searches the driver, but he has nothing on him. No gun, no medicine.
They walk back to the van. Mulder has his gun tot the man's back. Scully is
already searching it. Some people are standing and looking at them.

MULDER: Where is the cure?

DRIVER:[serious] I tell you if you let me walk.

MULDER: In your dreams.

DRIVER: You can't afford this, Mulder.

MULDER: O.K. I'll let you go. Where is it?

DRIVER: A small metal box. In the glove compartiment.

They've reached the van. Mulder is still holding his gun to the man.

MULDER:[to Scully] It's in the glove compartiment.

Scully gets in the van and a few seconds later she comes out with a metal
box. She opens it. The box is filled with a piece of green foam. In it is a
glass tube with some numbers on it and blue liquid. Scully looks at it
carefully.

SCULLY: What is it?

DRIVER: The little girl's life. [pauses] But you've got not much time
left.

Mulder pushes the guy away. He falls to the ground, but gets up and gets in
his van.

MULDER:[to Scully] To the hospital.

SCENE 8

Interior hospital room. Danielle's is lying is some kind of bath. Wires are
attached from monitors to her body. Her head rests on a pillow. Her eyes
are closed. A doctor is standing there. So are Patty and Graham. Patty is
crying.

SCULLY: What's her temperature?

DOCTOR:: [points at a monitor] 103.95. The ride here made her fever a
little worse, but she's stable now for five minutes. We've put
her in this bath to make sure she's not going to a higher
fever, as you [nods to Mulder] told us. But I'd like to know
why that's so dangerous.

As he says this. The digits on the screen go ot 104.00. Scully gets the
tube out of the box and hands it to the doctor.

SCULLY: Inject this.

The doctor frowns and doesn't take the tube.

SCULLY: We don't have much time left. At 104.1 she dies.

Patty and Graham frighten. Scully looks at the doctor, who's still doing
nothing.

DOCTOR:: No one dies at 104.1. [pauses] And I'm not going to inject
something I don't know. Not in this hospital.

Then Mulder gets out his gun and points it to the doctor. The doctor
frightens like hell.

MULDER: At this moment, we know more than you. Step back and get us an
injection needle. [to Graham and Patty] You've got to trust us.

Patty in tears, nods. From a small table the doctor gets a sterilized
injection needle and gives it to Scully. Mulder puts the gun down.

SCULLY: Thank you. I am a doctor too.

She fills the injection needle with the blue liquid and then walks over to
Danielle. She gets her arm out of the water and injects the liquid. As she
does this the temperature digits go up to 104.05. She injects all of the
liquid and then puts the arm back in the water. Scully steps back and looks
(like they all do) at the temperature digits. After a few moments it goes
down to 104.00, then with long pauses to 103.95 and 103.90. The doctor
doesn't believe it. Scully looks relieved. Patty and Graham hold Danielle's
hands and she opens her eyes for a second.

ANGELA: I know. [pauses] You know, sometimes I get so caught up in my
own thoughts, that it's like impossible to say them out loud or
something. Or write them down. [pauses] When I was thirteen, my
mother gave me a diary. But I barely wrote in it. [some what
laughing] I guess "mental block" could be my Indian name.

Scully smiles. After a few moments she turns on the engine.

SCULLY:[smiling] I'd still like to make it up to you.

Angela looks at her.

SCULLY:[uncertain] Would you like to come over to Washington for a
couple of days this summer? I could show you the F.B.I. building, we could have fun.

Interior hospital room. Danielle's lying in a normal bed. She's awake.
Patty and Graham are with her. They look beter than before. Angela comes
in. Graham and Patty look up, happy to see her. Angela walks to the bed and
looks at Danielle.

ANGELA: Hi.

DANIELLE: Hi.

ANGELA:[smiling] I can't win the shooting anymore. Because of you.

DANIELLE: Well, but you get to to the barbecue anyway, right?

Angela smiles and looks at Patty and Graham.

GRAHAM: Did agent Scully tell you what happened?

ANGELA: Yes.

GRAHAM: Do you believe it?

ANGELA:[surprised] Of course!

GRAHAM:[reassuring] It *is* a weird story.

SCENE 11

Interior hospital cafeteria. Mulder and Scully are having a soda.

MULDER: I just got a call from Skinner. He told us to get back to
Washington.

SCULLY: Of course.

They say nothing for a few moments.

MULDER: I don't know why they were testing the stuff on big animals, if
they had the serum already.

SCULLY: Maybe the serum only works for humans or for small creatures.

MULDER: The aliens I saw were small.

SCULLY: Like Danielle's size, right?

MULDER: Right. [pauses] So they needed to test the limits of the materials killing capacity. To create a serum for bigger life forms
than 11 year olds.

SCULLY: They tried the strongest life forms on earth. Which means that
it is even for them impossible to do vivisection on elephants
and polar bears.

MULDER: Or they just went to the zoo, because that was easier and to
see if they could get away with it.

SCULLY:[sighs] And they can.

MULDER:[after a while] Not forever.

SCENE 12

Exterior festival. A stage is put on some kind of sports field. It's
evening, nearly dark. There are a lot of people. Residue is playing. Jordan
is the new singer. Rayanne and Angela are standing near the stage. They're
singing along. When the song is over, the crowd applauds and Rayanne and
Angela are screaming.

RAYANNE:[yelling] This is *so* amazing.

ANGELA:[yelling] The rehearsals really helped.

The Residues leave the stage, only Jordan remains. He gets an acoustic
guitar and steps up to the microphone. He looks more secure than in real
life.

JORDAN: This is the last one. Thank you all for being here.

The crowd gets quiet. Jordan looks at Angela and she smiles at him. Then he
starts to play "Red" all alone. It's beautiful. Angela is melting at the
spot. Rayanne is smiling. When the song is done the crowd applaudes even
louder. Angela has tears in her eyes. Rayanne puts an arm around her.
Jordan smiles at Angela and then he leaves the stage at the back.

SCENE 13

Exterior Chase backyard. Graham is preparing the barbecue with Brian. Patty
is putting plates and stuff on a real big white plastic table. Rickie and
Sharon are helping her. Jordan is playing guitar on the grass. He plays
some undefinable song and Danielle is singing it with him. Angela lies on
the grass on her stomach. She's looking happy.

ANGELA VO: This looks like one of those feel-good commercials for life
insurances or something. Or a photo out of a Jehova's Witnesses
brochure. [pauses] A plane is going to crash here any minute.

Then Rayanne enters the backyard. She's carrying three bottles of coke.

Angela frowns, but gets up and goes in the house. CUT to interior kitchen.
Scully stands in the kitchen.

ANGELA: Agent Scully.

SCULLY: Hi Angela. [pauses] We're going back to Washington.

ANGELA: Can't you stay for the barbecue? I'm sure that's allright.

SCULLY: I know. Your dad invited us yesterday, but we really got to get
back. [pauses] I talked to your mother and she says it's o.k.
for you to come over for a week or so this summer.

ANGELA:[exited] Cool.

SCULLY: Call me when summerbreak starts.

ANGELA: I will.

SCULLY: And keep an eye on your sister. If the fever comes back, go
immediately to the doctor and call me. And if she wants to talk
to you about what happened, be there to listen. She's been
through a lot these these.

Angela nods.

SCULLY: O.K. I'm going. Agent Mulder is waiting in the car.

Angela steps up to her and hugs her.

ANGELA: Thank you for saving Danielle.

Scully says nothing, a little surprised by the hug, but smiling. Angela
lets go. They walk to the living room and Angela opens the door.

ANGELA: Bye, agent Scully.

SCULLY: It's Dana.

ANGELA:[smiling] Bye, Dana.

SCULLY: Bye. See you soon.

Scully walks away and Angela watches her get in the car and leave. She
waves as the car leaves. Then she closes the door.

SCENE 14

Exterior Chase backyard. The table is full with plates, glasses, food etc.
Everybody's eating and talking.

RICKIE: This really good, mr. Chase.

They all nod and mumble.

GRAHAM: Well, I only put the meat on the barbecue. It's that simple.

ANGELA: But you did spend all day in the kitchen with herbs, sauces and
marinades.

GRAHAM:[apologizing] Hey, I own a restaurant. I have a reputation.

DANIELLE: Hey, who won the shooting?

Sharon reaches under her chair to get an envelope.

SHARON:[oscar-show voice] I've got the winner right here.

Danielle starts to drum on the table. Sharon opens the envelope. She gets
out a piece of paper.

SHARON: And this year's winner of the World Happiness Shooting, poule
A, is [dramatic pause] Brian Krakow. With eleven hits.

They all applaude. Brian sure feels uncomfortable.

GRAHAM: So, what the prize?

SHARON: Actually the prize was going to be a seat at this barbecue. But
since we're *all* here, that's not a real prize anymore. [pauses] So, you just get the honour and this certificate.

She hands him the certificate, which reads Winner World Happiness Shooting
1995 - poule A: BRIAN KRAKOW. Then all their names are there.

RAYANNE: Hey, Krakow. Where did you get the last two ones? Angela wasn't
at school anymore and I was hiding.

BRIAN:[casual] O, that was easy. I just walked into the ladies room
and there were Sharon and Rickie. So I shot them. [apologizing,
to Patty and Graham] That's not what I usually do. [pauses, to
Sharon] So, if there's not any prize, what's that package under
your chair.

Sharon and Rayanne give him a look from hell. Sharon recovers and gets the
wrapped gift from under her chair.

SHARON: We *did* buy something. [to Brian] Only not for you. [to everybody]. There is someone here -

RAYANNE: Cut out the crap, let me do this. [to Danielle, who sits right
in front of her] You have been through a lot this week and that
wasn't much fun for you. Since we don't want you to go to the
zoo anymore, we brought the zoo here. [pauses] Well sort of.
[pauses] It's from all of us. Even from Brian, although he
doesn't know yet. If you feel to mature for it, you can always
give it to me.

Danielle looks surprised and then Sharon hands her the gift. She tears the
paper away and reveals a very cute Winnie the Pooh bear. She looks amazed
and happy.

DANIELLE: Gee, thanks a lot.

RAYANNE: Well, it's the least we could do. [pauses] If you hadn't been
sick, we would have never known what a great bedtime reader
Angela is. Now we never have to worry about being not able to
sleep anymore.

ANGELA: *Rayanne!*

RICKIE: Yeah, you should get your license as fast as you can. Then you
can do rounds.

ANGELA:[to Rickie and Rayanne, quasi-angry] Shut up. I won't turn
sixteen before the end of august. So I guess you'll have to
wait a *very* long time, before I come pulling up your driveways with The Grimm Brothers in the backseat.

GRAHAM: Allright, you all. I'd suggest we'd eat some more, before we
start killing each other over bedtime reading.

He gets up and walks over to the barbecue. Angela gets a bottle of coke and
poors some glasses. When she gets to Rayanne's she whispers in her ear with
an evil voice.

ANGELA:[smiling] So, you wanna take me for a long ride with the top
down tomorrow?

JORDAN:[smiling] Well, yeah.

ANGELA:[wicked smile] And eat lots of ice cream in some stupid town we
never heard of?

JORDAN: Whatever.

ANGELA: Be here at eleven?

JORDAN: Allright.

She gets on her toes and kisses him. He gets his arms around her and kisses
her back. Then we hear a door slam off screen. CUT to Chase front door.
Rayanne and Rickie come out.

RAYANNE: That's enough. We need to get home *before* Thanksgiving.

Angela and Jordan let go of each other. Angela is smiling.

JORDAN:[softly] See you tomorrow.

ANGELA: Yeah.

Rayanne and Rickie reach the car and kiss Angela on the cheek.

RAYANNE: The barbecue was great. We should do this more often.

ANGELA: [teasing] Well, you can always call my mother.

Jordan gets in the car. So do Rickie and Rayanne.

RAYANNE: Bye.

RICKIE: Bye.

ANGELA: Bye.

MSCL music starts. Angela watches them drive away. Then she turns around
and takes her time to do a little dance before she gets back to the house.
CUT to interior Chase house. Angela enters. Patty and Graham sit on the
couch.

ANGELA: It was really good. Thank you.

GRAHAM:[smiling] It's what we do.

ANGELA: I'm going to bed. Goodnight.

She kisses them both.

GRAHAM: Goodnight.

PATTY: Goodnight, honey.

CUT to Chase upstairs. Angela peaks into Danielle's room. She's asleep. The
Winnie the Pooh bear is lying on her pillow. Angela closes the door and
gets to her room.

ANGELA VO: I guess the feel-good commercial doesn't end today.

Angela sits down in front of her mirror. She smiles into the mirror. Music
starts playing, it's "Doubled up" by Heather Nova. It's a small kind of
song.

MUSIC: I saw a mountain from higher above,

I held your hand and I was doubled up in love.

Big sky above me, a river inside me

and I'm doubled up in love.

Feels good it feels like poetry

don't ask me to explain it just

feels good, like poetry,

I'm doubled up again.

The camera goes to her make-up table where the yellow the squirt gun lies
and then up again to the mirror with Angela's face and on the edge the
postcard she got from Mulder and Scully: "I want to believe". Then she
stands up and turns the lights off. Angela walks to the window, opens it
more and leans out. She looks at the stars, there are many. And then the
screen slowly fades to black.